“How Can I Be Racist? I Know All The Words To ‘Where Is The Love’ By The Black Eyed Peas” –Former Newberg Educator, Still In Blackface

September in Newberg has been full of bigoted incidents. At least one Newberg High School student participated in a nationwide Snapchat group called “Slave Trade” where teenage members shared racist and homophobic content. The district’s conservative leaning school board is working to ban Pride and Black Lives Matter symbols in classrooms – a policy that they could approve as soon as today. ⁣
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Meanwhile, Lauren Pefferle, a special education assistant at Mable Rush Elementary School in Newberg, was fired after showing up to work in blackface. She claimed to be channeling Rosa Parks protesting mandatory vaccines, falsely equivocating segregation with the choice to not get vaccinated. Pefferle was irate that she was being called a racist, insisting that would be impossible as she knew almost all the words to the Black Eyed Peas 2003 hit, “Where Is The Love.” ⁣
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“My heroic actions have completely gone over the heads of my socialist administrative staff,” claimed Pefferle. “They’re the real racists. I was trying to show the kids, who are our future, how to stand up for equality and love…by wearing blackface. It’s like the philosopher Will.i.Am always says, ‘we tryna stop terrorism, but we still got terrorists here livin’ in the USA, the big CIA, The Bloods and the Crips.’”
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Unsurprisingly, Pefferle stands behind the Newberg school board’s commitment to stopping critical race theory in its schools. “All of our students can learn to be colorblind and not acknowledge any differences, because we are all the same and we are living in a post racial world. I hope that the vast majority of Newberg students who are angry with this proposed policy can practice what they preach and turn the other cheek. I know that one day I’ll be looked back on as one of the greats who stood up for her silenced and persecuted community. Tubman. Parks. Pefferle.”